It’s been awhile since we’ve shared any updates on Itsdagram, the full-featured Instagram client for Windows Phone that is being written by Daniel Gary as we speak.

The app's development is rolling right along with regular updates (private beta, sorry) and we figured we would share some of it with you.

As of today, Itsdagram now has the following working features:

Notifications – Lockscreen (icon and detailed info), Toast and Live Tile for comments and likes

Social integration – You can now login with Twitter and Facebook accounts for auto-sharing

Delete photos

Create new account

Search for friends – Go through your contacts to find and follow people you know

Full commenting, following, liking enabled

Activity screen – Single list-view of all notifications (new follows, likes and comments)

Loads faster, more reliable connection

The app now is in our opinion, entering the final stages of development. More to the point, it’s awesome. We’re certainly confident that the app will clear the Store, but we’re unsure how Instagram proper will react to it (if at all).

So what do you folks think? Do you like the look and feature offerings? The app is spec'd to be priced at $1.49 with a limited free-trial and should be out in the near future. And yes, before you ask a Windows Phone 7.x version is planned assuming all goes well.

Nah, instagraph being the first still means something to me. That 3 pics every 24 hour limit nonsense bugs me but for the effort given, i'm truly appreciative. No issues spending the small amout of money to support the dev and I said the same thing about WPGram and more than likely, I will say the same thing about itsdagram.

gotta support those who look to support you. That was the fun part about Windows Mobile and the beginning of Android for me. Watching these dev's come up with interesting solutions is just cool.

What an innovative idea erzhik. Though it kind of amuses me that you seem to be frustrated at the fact that I mis-read or even did not read all of the article. Oh well, accept my sincere apologies and I hope that you can overlook my comments in the future.

Just an FYI and something I hope can drag you out of your self-centred mind - there are many people in this world who have disorders that affect their reading/interpretation... so you are either someone who is extremely ignorant or someone who lacks this basic knowledge about human disorders.

That's very subjective. Only those who have such issues can answer that as we are not sure how their mind operates. It could be an element of impetuosity that their illness enforces - no-one knows, at least I don't.
All I want is Itsdagram to be available on ma Lumia 800 :) and now I realise that the article answers my question..

This looks great!!! Loved it!! And is almost complete!
The only thing I didnt like so much is color theme: this blue, combined with gray and white backgrounds make this awesome app looks like a iOS port of something. And, using White background theme in your phone seams to make some elements almost invisible in the app (look at the third part of the second picture)...

I salute the effort of the developers behind this.
However I have that strange feeling that as soon as this is released, Instagram will finally give green light on their App to be released, leaving many people frustrated for having paid for something that they can then get free.

I wouldn't expect people to be frustrated by losing such as small amount, and supporting WP devs, who work hard and are a credit to the platform, deserve some support. For example, I bought Instagraph when it became available and haven't used it yet due to not having an Instagram account, but I admire what the dev is trying to achieve and wanted to support them.

Yeah except the majority of people don't live to finance developers. And I wouldn't call 1.50€ a small amount. Anyway, yes, the majority will probably be frustrated for having spend money on a App that then gets a free official version.

You're seriously comparing buying an App to buying a phone? You have a problem, then.
Yes, 1.50€ is a significant amount of money (yeah, 1.50€ is over 2 dollars by the way) when you have in mind that: 1 - you're buying an App. Something that can be pulled out of the store at any time by no reason whatsover. Yeah you have it on your phone...until you need to reset it. Then its gone; 2 - you're buying an App that will get a free oficial release; 3 - one App costs 1.50€. Then another for another 1.50€. And another. and another. And when you buy 6 Apps you've already spent 10 dollars. And then 10 more, and another 10. And when you look at it, you've spent a sh*t ton of money on Apps that you don't even use just to "support the developers".

I didn't asked for this App to be free. Actually, I didn't said a single thing about what I want this App to be or do. Why? Because I don't give a damn about Instagram. However I do see people's reaction when some App goes on sale. "Fuuuu I just bought it last night at full price!"..."crap, I got this on release date for twice the price!"...
Therefore I just said that I have a feeling this kind of reactions will occur once Instagram is released to the WP public.

But regarding the "we must support the developers" thing. NO. We don't. If anyone must support the developers and make sure the platform grows, it's MICROSOFT. Not us. Sure we can support this or that developers because we like his work and we actually use their App a lot. And THEN we gladly support them by buying their Apps, leaving constructive feedback, etc.
But NO, we don't have to go supporting every single developer who puts out an App just because "if we don't, they'll stop supporting us". We are the CLIENTS. We buy whatever we want and the developers offer us products that we may or may not buy. We don't have ANY obligation of buying Apps just to avoid developers to stop putting out Apps. It's Microsoft that has to create an environment where developers can get any reward from putting out their Apps. Not us.

We've seen numerous times when official app is released, it still sucks compared to some 3rd party apps. Example: twitter vs. Rowi, YouTube vs Metrotube. Yes, those official apps were recently updated to bring them up to par with top 3rd party, but for the first year or so, those official apps sucked.

That would be true, except that those examples you've mentioned were all Apps designed for WP7. What we've been seeing is the official Apps being redesigned to meet the new standards of quality that WP8 demands.
Instagram on the other hand, will come out directly to WP8 (and I wouldn't hold my breath for a WP7 version). And the official Apps we've seen released directly to WP8 are very good, be it Pandora, Tumblr, Spotify...Good to the point of being aux pair with (when not better than) other very good 3rd party Apps.

Hopefully you found some value in the story as it's a fairly big advancement in the platform for WP8 users who desperately want Instagram.

Also, it's not so much a trick as trying to be descriptive in the title. There are a lot of 'Gram apps out there on the Store that just pull in your feed. Translation: boring. This is not one of those.

I understand that they need to monetize this but, this gives the company one more reason to go after them.
Maybe they should turn this to donationware or something so that they are not accused of monetizing foreign private APIs.